This year I found that my coworker became a close friend and I’ve never worked with someone who I felt genuinely cared about me at this workplace. I’ve been there 5 years and she is the only person who I feel cares about me as a person.
The work place is like this cold disconnected separate reality that you have to tolerate and this huge part of your day is spent around people who don’t love you or care about you.
Finding this sense of connection made work tolerable and made me feel I’m not alone for the first time in 5 years.
I just feel like I needed to vent about how fucked it is that we have to spend so much time being surrounded by people who don’t care about us. To not be paid enough and under appreciated is one thing but just going to work and realizing you’re on your own?
It’s the same sensation in schools as a kid. No wonder so many people are mentally ill.